Hi Niall, On 26/11/12 15:49, Niall Litchfield wrote: > I don't buy the space saving thing (there might be dictionary performance > improvements of course). Well, it's how Oracle sell the feature - large databases with lots of empty tables etc ... It's not a space saving problem for me, it's just a PITA! > ... It strikes me that people > who worry about a wasted few hundred mb in a schema that size are probably > either overly obsessive, unbelievably effective or just looking in the > wrong place for space savings. :) Or, just following ordered from on high? :-( Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l